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Date : 1768
Sizes : 2.44 m x 1.88 m
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Presented by Edward Tyrrell (1863)
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English Painting
Painting
Area related
England
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A lecturer demonstrates the creation of a vacuum to a family. A white cockatoo (an exotic bird, unlikely in fact to have been used for this experiment) is imprisoned in a glass flask from which the air is being extracted by a pump. The candlelit setting is characteristic of Wright's interest in dramatic contrasts of light and shade.
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